Today we’d like to introduce you to Shianne Wisdom.
Hi Shianne, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I’ve always felt the tension between faith and creativity. Like, both were real in me at the same time and for a long time I didn’t know how to hold them together without one shrinking the other. And somewhere in the middle of sitting with that tension, I realized the space I needed just… didn’t exist. So I built it.
That’s kind of been the pattern. I see what could be there, and then I start moving toward it. The Cre8ive Space came out of that. Lab 8 Media came out of that. Eighth Day Co., Social Saints, all of it grew from the same root: a calling that needed a container.
Today I’m the founder of a creative ecosystem across four entities, community, agency, apparel, and publishing, all built around the intersection of faith and creative work. I’m still building. But now I have infrastructure around the vision, and that changes everything.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Honestly, no. It hasn’t been smooth.
The hardest part wasn’t the work itself. It was building something that didn’t have a reference point. Nobody in my immediate world had done what I was trying to do, so there was no roadmap to follow, no one to call and ask “is this normal.” I was figuring it out in real time.
And layered on top of that was the internal stuff. Learning to lead while I was still becoming. Still finding my voice, still sorting out my own identity, still growing up in a lot of ways. There were seasons where the vision was clearer than my confidence in it, and I had to keep moving anyway.
That tension actually shaped a lot of how I build now. I lead with a lot of honesty because I had to learn things the long way. And I think that’s made what I’m building more real.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
So what I do is hard to put in one box, honestly. I’m a creative director, but I’m also a founder. And the way it actually looks in real life is four entities that all connect back to one vision.
Lab 8 Media is the agency, production, brand strategy, content. The Cre8ive Space is the community I built for people who are creative and faith-rooted and trying to figure out how those two things live together. Eighth Day Co. is the apparel side. And Social Saints is my book, published in 2024.
They’re all different, but they all come from the same place in me.
And I think what makes it different from a lot of what’s out there is that I never had to choose between the faith piece and the creative work. Like that tension a lot of people feel? I just… didn’t build it that way. They’re the same thing for me. Always have been. And everything I’ve made has been an expression of that, whether people clock it right away or not.
That’s the through line. That’s what I’m most proud of.
Do you have any advice for those just starting out?
The thing I wish someone had told me early, and honestly the thing I still have to remind myself of now, is that two truths can exist at the same time.
You can be called and confused. Both. At once. The clarity about what you’re supposed to be doing doesn’t mean you have all the answers about how to get there. And that’s not a sign something’s wrong, that’s just what the early stages actually feel like.
And the vision can be clear while the provision is still slow. Like you can see exactly where you’re going and still be waiting on the resources, the timing, the people, the doors. That tension is real. It doesn’t mean you heard wrong.
So if you’re starting out and it feels like those things are contradicting each other, they’re probably not. They’re just both true right now. Learn to hold them without letting one cancel the other out.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://shiannewisdom.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/shiannewisdom
